6 May - 12 May

FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

We are EXPLORING speeches by analysing texts that have a range of audience/s and the context of this audience/s impacts the interpretation of the text/s.

We are PLANNING to demonstrate that, as a text creator, I can create texts to advocate for myself, for others, and to try to change my world.                                                                                     

Knows Covered:

KNOW: As a text creator, I can contribute to national and global conversations through my original interpretations of texts and through the texts I create.

KNOW: As a text creator, I can use stories to advocate for myself, for others, and to try to change my world.

                                                                                   Success Criteria: I can...

For a specific audience, I can design an oral text to present and advocate for my ideas.

I can identify the text’s creator and why the text has been created (purpose).

Week 2 Learning Activities

                                                                                             Monday

• First of all, you will watch this   about the olympics.

• You will have 2 minutes to talk to each other about what they know about Go For Gold.

• You will then share back as a class so that I can write on the whiteboard a brainstorm of what they already know about Go For Gold.

• Then you will create a title page for "Go For Gold."

                                                                                          Wednesday

• You will first watch this   about how to be a more confident public speaker.
• Then from slide 4 of the "Oral Presentations Slideshow" write in your English books how you would show the 8 tips for becoming a better speaker. Also, write how you would show the opposite and what the 8 tips for being a worse public speaker would be i.e. doing the opposite of the 8 tips for becoming a better speaker.
• Afterwards, look at this website and write a speech about how we can show unity during the olympics.
• Finally, draw, label and colour a picture of what you wish would happen about laws on speaking in different places such as being able to say whatever you want or at the volume you want in certain places in your English books to AT LEAST A YEAR EIGHT STANDARD.

• You will first watch this   about John Kerry's anti-war speech to Vietnam.
• You will also read John Kerry's speech on this link and write in a minimum of 100 words in your English book why you liked or did not like John Kerry's speech and whether or not you think it is important or not and why. Include quotes from the speech and what they are.
• You will then write as many thoughts as you can of what John Kerry is talking about in his speech on padlet.
• Afterwards, you will draw, label and colour a picture of what John Kerry's speech looks like in your English books.
• After that, write your own speech about peace.
• Finally, create a slideshow with captions of what you want to see with world peace.